Aurea Gemma <Gallica> 2.2 
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[2.2] Carta igitur dicitur quasi coartans et constringens rerum testimonia. Dicitur etiam a nomine civitatis Egypti, que dicitur Cartinum.¹

¹ This etymology also appears below, Aurea Gemma <Gallica> 3a.1.

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